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| Neave, Guy | 1 |
| Rhoades, Gary | 1 |
| Slaughter, Shelia | 1 |
| Stromquist, Nelly P. | 1 |
| Teichler, Ulrich | 1 |
| Tierney, William G. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedRhoades, Gary – Higher Education, 2001
Discusses how in this issue's special section, three leading scholars in the comparative study of education explore research questions and methods from three social science frameworks: postmodernism, feminism, and political economy/political sociology. Describes the articles and asserts that these analyses address significant gaps in the existing…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Feminism, Higher Education, Postmodernism
Peer reviewedStromquist, Nelly P. – Higher Education, 2001
Reflects on some of the major achievements of and challenges to women's studies as a field in a relatively unsupportive university environment. Explores the relationship between gender studies and comparative higher education studies. Suggests two scenarios for the future trajectory of women's studies, providing examples of what that might mean…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Feminism, Higher Education, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedTierney, William G. – Higher Education, 2001
Explores the application of postmodern assumptions in the study and analysis of comparative higher education. Outlines tenets of postmodernism that provide a competing conception to modernism with regard to knowledge production, identity, and the role of the university. Offers suggestions about how postmodernism might reorient comparative higher…
Descriptors: College Role, Comparative Education, Differences, Epistemology
Peer reviewedSlaughter, Shelia – Higher Education, 2001
Explores how modern and postmodern theory (including Mann's political sociology of power, Foucauldian theory of knowledge/power regimes, and feminist theory) might be used to examine problems in comparative higher education, including how globalization is related to shifting power/knowledge regimes in which comparative higher education is…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Feminism, Higher Education, Modernism
Peer reviewedTeichler, Ulrich – Higher Education, 1996
Argues that comparative studies in higher education are helpful in conceptual restructuring and in understanding how higher education is shaped by common international trends, reforms based on comparisons, increasing trans-national cooperation, and some supra-national integration of systems. Recommends a semi-structured research design allowing…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedClark, Burton R. – Higher Education, 1996
While most comparative higher education research focuses on the transition from elite to mass education, two other aspects deserve study: substantive academic growth, with roots in the research imperative and the dynamics of disciplines; and innovative university organization, a concern among practitioners as universities seek greater capacity for…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, Comparative Education, Educational Change
Peer reviewedNeave, Guy – Higher Education, 1996
Suggests that the study of contemporary history can provide a vehicle for testing the validity of theories developed in higher education policy studies. Greater attention to the cultural and historic contexts of higher education, particularly in cross-national studies, is urged. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Context, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
